Disorientation and the Ocean’s Edge

Today is a very strange day. I have a day off work, but the small is occupied elsewhere for the whole day. I am not entirely sure what to do with myself. I think my options are:

run naked around the house, swearing vigorously (because I can, right?)

clean the house (because it needs it)

attempt to scythe the back garden into semi normality (there is a limit to how far my love of blackberries will allow me to ignore the brambles that are galloping through the bottom half of my garden)

knit / crochet all day long

write a blog post

I have decided against (1) as its too cold today. I have done some mild tidying up. Its been raining and so the garden option is a bit more problematic than it should be. So I think I am going for a mixture of (4) and (5), with possibly some pattern writing thrown in for good measure.

So to the blog – I can now reveal my latest shawl pattern, which is called the Ocean’s Edge Shawl. I like shawls that are quick to make. I also like ones where there is an incremental change in the texture or lacework of the shawl. In this one I was a bit inspired by a trip to the Scottish coastline earlier in the year. The water washed up on the small beach we were at and as it receded you saw how the water revealed things on the beach and the foam created patterns. So this pattern is written in sections, starting with the water and ending on the shells washed on the beach.

It is such a quick pattern to make that one of the shawl clubbers has already finished hers, and so it is with thanks to Joanne that I have this picture above. My own attempts to photograph it were terrible (I don’t really know my new work colleagues well enough yet to get them to model for me), so I am very grateful to have this picture which shows the transitions of the shawl so nicely. It doesn’t show off the pretty, pretty sea-inspired yarn that Sam dyed for it, but I have so say that it does suit a turquoise yarn.

So I am not sure what to do next. I might make a brew, put Judy Judge on (I don’t know why, but she is my current daytime TV addiction), and see if I can finish the last sock in my current binge. I will do a bit more tidying I think, but that might just be in my yarn room, where I have a lot of caking to do and I might have to re-organise my yarn storage at its getting out of hand. And then I have a jacket to start to make. A friend asked me aged ago to make her a crocheted cardigan thing and even sent me the yarn but I haven’t really got stuck into it yet. Today may be the day. Too much time, not enough decisiveness!